Chorus Competition
Today was the school’s Chorus competition. It’s a competition of all the students in the Junior high school and Senior High school. It was very interesting and very nice. They all sing so beautifully, that I’m glad I wasn’t a judge. I don’t think that I would have been able to do a good job because it was damn difficult.
At the very end the students were all emotional because they really did put their heart and souls into it. It really showed too in their effort. There were a few different categories that the students were competing. The first was for the best conductor, and the second was for the best pianist. The big prize went for the total performance and there was one for the best performance of each grade.
Some of the classes that I lead won, so I’m happy about that. In High school the top prizes went to 10th grade yuri, 11th grade yuri, and 12th grade yuri. They swept the top prizes, and I teach two of the three, which isn’t bad. Then for the junior high school, 7th grade yuri, 8th grade fuji, and 9th grade fuji, but the major prizes went to two 9th grade classes (fuji – I teach this one, and ran) and 8th grade fuji. It was exciting to see them celebrate when they won. The whole competition lasted from 10:30am to 4:30pm, and really it took that long.
Afterwards there was the teacher’s “good work” party at the prince hotel. We all had drinks at the bottom of the hotel then we moved up to the 11th floor where dinner was waiting. I didn’t get a chance to eat too much because I was talking with another teacher 9th grade fuji, about his homeroom class winning and about sea eels. Before I knew it, the different departments had to do a singing performance karaoke style. The English department picked me to be the leader, how nice of them. They chose the song, which was Backstreet Boys – I want it that way. Since I think most of the teachers knew the song, I decided to go along with it. It wasn’t that bad, but I was the only one singing it and the other teachers were just backing me up. That was a bit unfair.
